Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 439 ms ] threadMore than anything, we try to make CircleCI a great place to work. You might love it too if you like:
- working with great people who you can learn from
- to work on developer tools
- building a product that customers love, and pay for
- working with Clojure and ClojureScript
- flat, transparent cultures (we're inspired a lot by Valve and similar companies) [1]
- to work remotely, or to have your own private office in SF [2]
We're hiring lots of roles, esp in engineering, design, dev-success, and dev-marketing.
[1] http://blog.circleci.com/kindness-is-underrated/ [2] http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/
Check out https://circleci.com/jobs for details
We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.
You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.
One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.
We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.
Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/
Thanks!
The problem -> To try to decrease costs, carries have been increasing the size of container ships. The only problem there is that as container ships get larger, the variability in the global supply chain goes up (e.g. a large ship being late causes a headache to more people than a small one).
How we fix it -> We track every ship on the water and run a bunch of analysis on our data sets so that we can help our customers smooth out the rough edges. (One company we're working with spends 6.5 mil every month on “late fees” because of these rough edges).
Web/data stack -> clojure + postgres/cassandra/redis/rabbit + ruby on rails + hadoop/EMR + node (we’re a SOA shop)Mobile -> iOS, android in the near term
Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques ;-)
We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies). We also have some top tier investors (a16z)!Looking for help on mobile, frontend, and data science sides! Would be thrilled to find a CTO to grow the tech side of the company with me, but I'm also happy to find engineers who just want to build great things.
If this sounds interesting, please shoot me an email at marc@weft.io!
I'm hiring for two founder-level roles at StoryWorth: Head of Marketing and Partnerships, and Head of Community.
StoryWorth makes it easy for people to privately record their family stories. Each week, we email our customers a question about their life, for example “What do you remember about your grandmother?” or “Tell me about the day you got engaged”. All they have to do is reply with a story, either by email or by phone. We save their stories and share them privately with their family.
We have a launched product with paying customers across the country who love our service. This is an opportunity to be part of the founding team that is going to help every family in the world record their story for generations to come.
You're a good fit for these roles if you crave a ton of responsibility on a small team. You'll get to define your strategy, and then you'll actually get to execute on it. If you're the kind of person who learns by doing, you'll be learning faster than ever before.
If you're interested in either position, I'd be happy to tell you more about each specific role. Send me a short note about yourself at nick@storyworth.com, I can't wait to hear from you!
Periscope is a data analysis tool that uses pre-emptive in-memory caching and statistical sampling to run data analyses really, really fast. Customers typically see a 100x-10,000x speedup of their analysis queries on the day they install.
We also write the popular High-Performance SQL Blog (https://periscope.io/blog) which gets tens of thousands of monthly uniques, and espouses our marketing philosophy of helping analysts wherever we can, whether or not they end up buying.
We’re hiring marketers, designers and engineers! See:
* https://www.periscope.io/outrageous-marketer
* https://www.periscope.io/user-experience-designer
* https://www.periscope.io/data-obsessed-engineer
We’re a team of 4 ex-Google and Microsoft engineers and PMs. We have venture funding, paying customers, > 25% m/m revenue growth, and a spacious loft apartment in SF to work out of.
Email me (harry@periscope.io) if you have questions!
In particular, we're looking right now for:
-1 or 2 Back-end (Perl) engineers.
-1 Front-end (JavaScript/CSS) engineer.
-1 Operations (Chef/Site-reliability) engineer.
-1 Desktop/mobile Web designer.
https://citymapper.com/apps/
We're looking for great people first and foremost, but especially the following roles:
- Lead DevOps engineer (Python, AWS, Salt)
You will be responsible for our platform in the cloud.
This isn’t a “systems administrator” role. You will shape the tool chain, deliver features, and ensure that the moving parts of our system can communicate.
Experience with Python and AWS required.
- Experienced Android and iOS developers
We’re reimagining mobile UIs for finding the best ways to get around cities. We’re looking for mobile developers who both care deeply about the “little big details” of mobile interfaces, and who know the grotty implementation details required to make things work across a range of device types.
If you’re looking for a project that improves people’s lives on a daily basis, if you want to craft elegant and fun UIs out of the tangled thicket of transportation options, or if you have a passion for public transportation, get in touch!
If you’re interested, please contact me at emil@citymapper.com
As an organization, we have a long history with map data. Now we’re looking at interesting ways to use it to change driving. Cars of the future (and present) have onboard computers, tons of sensors, and internet connections over the cell network. If you could hook that up to our map data, you could do some really cool things.
To see what we’re up to, check out http://360.here.com/tag/connected-driving/
We’re looking for strong Java developers and strong testers to make this happen. We’re building on AWS, so experience there is a plus.
The things I’ve enjoyed most since starting here a few months ago:
- Interesting problem space
- Interesting tech stack
- I get to wear sandals to work
- Team running group that goes for a run together every Wednesday morning before lunch
- Company gym
- Quickly-growing team
- Good medical insurance coverage
Interested? Questions? Email me at roman.zabicki@here.com I'd love to talk to you.
Silk [1] is looking for Front-end Developers and Javascript/TypeScript and Haskell Engineers. We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with information that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.
We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end [2]. Silk is well-funded by top-tier VCs (NEA and Atomico) and we're located in the city center of Amsterdam.
For more info & open positions: https://jobs.silk.co/
[1] https://www.silk.co/ [2] See http://engineering.silk.co/ for examples.
I am looking for the first few individuals to join a team of two building something special in SF. Bootstrapping a team from scratch requires a type of person who thrives in a startup atmosphere and can wear many hats. Ideal candidates have had plenty of experience scaling up or building large distributed systems and/or building products for developers with a large user base. Full-time Bloomberg LP employment with generous benefits and compensation commensurate with experience.
Who we are:
We run a worldwide network with somewhere around 35,000 circuits in 180+ countries. We ingest anywhere from 45-60 billion "ticks" daily aggregate from feeds in all of these countries. We normalize, scrub, and then re-distribute all this data to customers in all of those countries in an efficient manner. The Terminal provides analytic and visualization tools to work with market data, as well as the same tools to work with news and alerts. On the news side, we ingest over 80,000 news feeds (e.g. WSJ would be one "feed") from around the world and do the same kind of processing, applying ML for sentiment and topic classification, machine translation, etc. The web side (bloomberg.com, businessweek.com, Government, Law, etc) uses mostly Rails stacks and everything you would expect to find in a web shop.
If you want to join a team in the single digits and work for one of the most profitable software companies in the world, contact me -- andrew@ishiboo.com (personal e-mail)
We're looking for a web frontend developer with strong UI/UX skills and experience developing usable, attractive, and responsive interfaces. We're not overly concerned with the frameworks or libraries you've used, but hopefully you've been around the block enough times to have solid opinions about a couple.
If you're looking for interesting challenges, we have many of them... Delivering high quality products that solve real world problems for our users, while keeping their privacy and security our primary concern, can make for surprisingly competing interests at time. We're a very distributed team, which has many advantages, but also presents a number of challenges; it's pretty critical that you are comfortable working independently.
If you're interested in learning more, feel free to reach out to me or StavrosK (We're josh and stavros at silentcircle.com, respectively).
http://www.vessel.com
We’re still in stealth but we've been busy building a service whose mission is to delight consumers and content creators alike.
Our founders, former founding CEO and CTO of Hulu, Jason Kilar and Richard Tom, have assembled a unique and talented team, with strong experience building and innovating at places like Hulu, Netflix and Amazon. As a team, we are unusually passionate about the intersection of media and technology; we see an opportunity to improve media, particularly next generation video
We’re looking for strong full stack developers who love to code in a variety of languages and frameworks (Python, CoffeeScript, Node.js, React to name a few). If this sounds like you, please email: careers@vessel.com
Group messaging startup with 10 developers and offices on three continents looking for mobile app and backend developers. Given the small size of our team, you will be a critical part of the company.
Supertext is a new and exciting chat app with a very competitive advantage that no other chat app has: Full integration and relations with the Telecom operators enabling the app to break out of the silos that chat apps are limited to and deliver a hybrid of SMS and regular chat apps.
Supertext is based on SMSgrupp which is a mature SMS-based communcation tool that works on all mobile phones, regardless of model or age. SMSgrupp is rapidly spreading in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.
The main quality we’d like to see in a candidate is simply the ability to ship solid, professionally written and maintainable code. And enjoy doing it. If you have apps in the Market, and a proven track record of delivering quality code that stirs a developer’s admiration, that counts for more than any number of impressive degrees.
We look for: Solid knowledge of tools and language Strong understanding of software engineering principles and object-oriented concepts. Pride in writing simple and beautiful code. Product sensibility and understanding of interaction design. A sense of humor and a light heart.
Our new offices are situated near the water in central Stockholm, at Götgatan just beside Slussen. If this piques your interest, drop us a mail at jobs at smsgrupp dot se. We would love to hear from you!
Knewton is on a mission to personalize education for students around the world. Education companies worldwide use the Knewton infrastructure platform to power course materials that dynamically adapt to each student’s unique needs.
At Knewton, we use small, cross-functional teams to solve difficult challenges with real-world implications. Teams comprise a range of technical, mathematical, educational, and design specialists unified by a passion for improving education.
Knewton was founded in 2008 and has offices in New York City and London. Investments top $105M from well-known angel investors plus Accel, Bessemer, First Round Capital, Firstmark, Founders Fund, GSV, and Atomico.
Apply online or email me at DR@Knewton.com
http://jobs.knewton.com/apply/juKGkn/Senior-Software-Enginee...
Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/
Android Engineer — Our Android app is at a nascent stage, with just one fulltime engineer working on it. Our iOS app is used by millions; we want our Android app to get there too. We're looking for someone to help make that happen: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/android_developer
New York, NY
Our Mission
SkilledUp Academy is changing the way that people learn skills online. Over 44% of college graduates work in jobs that don't require a college degree, but employers still can't find quality talent. We introduce the human element into real-world, skills-based online education. Students complete rigorous curriculums created by our partner companies that focus on teaching the skills that employers need. Our industry-based mentors ensure that students receive the support that they need to learn.
Our Story
We were born out of two acquired startups and still retain the culture and practices of a lean / agile startup, but have all the resources and benefits of a public company (our parent company, Apollo Education Group, made over 3.5 billion in revenue last year). We’re a young company looking for people looking to help shape our culture.
Our Team
We’re a diverse team made of:
- A Bonnaroo Guitarist
- The world’s preeminent scholar on Toilet Based Social Networks
- A philosopher king with a sweet spot for ice cream
Our engineers write pristine, well-tested code. We pride ourselves in developer happiness. SkilledUp uses a pull request based workflow, continuous integration. We think Ruby on Rails, Trello, Github, and Heroku are the best tools. We have continuous investment days, where we only focus on learning new skills.
If you are interested in learning more and want to talk to an engineer, send an email to jon@skilledup.com
http://sixtostart.com
We're the indie game developers behind the world's bestselling smartphone fitness game, Zombies, Run!, which has over 900,000 players. We've also created the NHS' first smartphone game, The Walk, which was Editor's Choice on the App Store in the US and UK in December. The games we make literally improve people's lives!
We are looking for a senior iOS developer with experience in creating innovative iOS apps or games. Our games combine innovative real-world gameplay with captivating stories and design. We want to find someone who can help us improve our existing games and develop new games that are just as revolutionary and innovative as Zombies, Run!
Responsibilities
* Developing new features for our existing games, and maintaining them to take advantage of new OS-level features (we're currently targeting iOS7 for all our apps)
* Developing and designing new apps and games
* Working with our web developer to ensure good communication with our online services
* Working with our Android developers (currently, all of our games are available on both platforms)
Requirements
* At least two years of experience developing iOS applications.
* An enthusiasm for quickly learning and applying new and emerging technologies.
* An interest in games and game design, and a tenacious approach to problem-solving.
We're a small, bootstrapped, profitable company that makes people's lives better. Position is full-time and based in London.
See more info at http://www.sixtostart.com/onetoread/2013/senior-ios-develope.... and email us at hello at sixtostart dot com.
Just launched! (http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/20/epoxy-launch/)
Just closed our Series A! (http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/24/epoxy-funding/)
And, of course, we need all the help we can get. Join our exceptional engineering and product design team and help define the future of online video. We're building on a thoroughly modern stack including Ruby, Rails, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Redis, Hadoop, Chef, AWS and friends. Our pressing challenges range from data to rich client apps, mobile, social and of course video. If any of this sounds up your alley, we'd love to connect. Specific priorities right now are:
Senior full-stack Rails engineer: http://epoxy.tv/careers/rails
Senior full-stack Node.js engineer: http://epoxy.tv/careers/node
Senior data engineer: http://epoxy.tv/careers/data
A bit about us:
Epoxy builds exceptional software for online video creators and viewers. Our tools help YouTubers and networks optimize their businesses and deepen the relationship with their audience. Our channel experiences provide viewers with new ways to connect with and experience the content they love.
Epoxy was founded by designers, engineers and entrepreneurs who are passionate about product and solving problems. Our backgrounds include Stanford, Brown, IDEO, Adobe, Mixpanel, Google/YouTube and Team Downey.
Sound interesting? Check out more complete descriptions at http://epoxy.tv/careers or drop us a line at jobs@epoxy.tv. Thanks!
NGP VAN (https://coderwall.com/team/ngp-van) is the world’s leading political technology firm, providing campaign and organizing technology to Democrats, progressives, and non-partisan organizations. We offer an integrated platform that combines the best fundraising, compliance, organizing, and new media products available.
We are a rapidly growing company that built the voter contact and volunteer management tools used by Obama for America. Nearly every State Democratic Party in the country distributes our VoteBuilder tools to Democrats up and down the ticket, and we provide industry-leading organizing tools for labor unions, environmental groups, pro-choice advocates, civil rights activists, and international political parties across the world. Our fundraising and compliance software is used by the vast majority of Democratic candidates from the Presidential level on down, and our fast-growing new media platform has recently become the most-used platform by Democratic campaigns as well.
We have a several spots open in DC - most of them (management and devops) are focused on our public facing products that run on a combination of node, angular, mongo, dynamo, drupal, and a touch of ruby now, with a senior developer spot for our asp.net mvc, ef, and angular stack.
The positions offers competitive compensation and a strong benefits package. NGP VAN prides itself on being a progressive workplace; we have a fun and inclusive company culture, including blowing off steam on a softball field, drinking in the office on Fridays while watching team demo videos, shooting at each other during Friday Fragfest, enjoying periodic company retreats to warm places with beaches (including Jamaica or Dominican Republic this November), and casual Friday every day.
Coderwall: https://coderwall.com/team/ngp-van Company Site: http://ngpvan.com
Hit me up at dmiller at ngpvan dot com for more info or to apply.
Tubular is the only video marketing platform that provides insights based on the individual behavior of over 150 million viewers.
http://tubularlabs.com/
We're hiring engineers and in particular engineers to work on the following stack
* Angular JS * Python * Cassandra * MySQL * ElasticSearch
We collect millions of data points daily and need everything from Data Engineers to Frontend Engineers to help our customers understand their audience.
If interested drop me email or apply via our jobs page david@tubularlabs.com
Kumu Networks is revolutionizing the way wireless systems are built using an innovative full-duplex wireless design that its co-founders developed in their research at Stanford. Wireless full-duplex allows a radio to transmit and receive signals at the same time and on the same frequency channel. Kumu's patent pending full-duplex technology changes the basic assumptions on which current wireless radios are built, allowing for improved performance and reduced complexity across a variety of wireless devices and markets.
We're looking for well-rounded systems programmers with an embedded systems, C, Linux, and networking background. Fluency in Python and Git workflows are big pluses. In addition, we're looking for software engineers with a background in cellular stacks, and algorithms scientists with a background in optimization. See more information on open positions here: http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/kumunetworks. Apply on jobscore or email resumes and/or questions to jobs@kumunetworks.com. Please mention Hacker News!
This is a well-funded technology startup with a small team, a highly cross-disciplinary environment, and a very concrete mission. Help us change the future of wireless!
tl;dr: full-stack JS (Express + Angular), MongoDB, Golang, web + mobile, remote, high impact on real customers
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Moveline is transforming an industry older than the internal combustion engine: we build software that dramatically improves the customer experience, end-to-end, around moving. We're helping real people every day and excited to tackle more of the problem space.
> About Moveline
> About the dev team > About you Market salary and meaningful equity are available. Hackers in Vegas or remote in the US are welcome. Full-time candidates only, please (with an initial contract-to-hire phase). No freelancers or recruiters need apply.MENTION HACKER NEWS WHEN APPLYING! We have hired from HN before and consistently see the best candidates coming from these threads.
Email: jobs@moveline.com
Apply: https://www.moveline.com/careers/details?jvi=osBYXfwI,Job
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[1] http://www.techstars.com/companies/stats/
[2] http://downtownproject.com/
[3] http://angel.co/moveline
[4] http://www.fastcompany.com/3029158/agendas/why-your-office-n...
We're a small and growing company looking for people with a passion for big data who love to solve difficult/fun problems for our clients. Here are two job postings:
Data Miner/Data Scientist: http://www.conclusiveanalytics.com/career-opportunities/data...
Database Developer: http://www.conclusiveanalytics.com/career-opportunities/data...
Being a small company, your daily job will not be defined by your job title, and you will get to learn something new every day. We develop in Linux and Windows, HP Vertica and SQL Server, and other languages & platforms like R, SAS, DataFlux, Python, or whatever we think is best at getting the job done. We offer competitive pay & benefits, a pool table, lots of white boards, and a great team of smart and fun coworkers.
Contact hr@conclusiveanalytics.com for more details.
Localytics is hiring engineerings, designers and product managers:
Check out our last two blog posts to get an idea of what its like to work with us:* Your first day: http://www.localytics.com/blog/2014/onboarding-engineers/
* How we deploy: http://www.localytics.com/blog/2014/on-the-road-to-continuou...
About Localytics:
* We provide app analytics and app marketing services for thousands of apps on over a billion devices.
* We have hard problems to solve in big data, scaling, distributed systems, data visualization and mobile.
* We are one of the fastest growing companies in Boston and were named one of the top places to work by The Boston Globe.
* We are passionate about and have deep expertise in the technologies we work with including: Scala, iOS, Android, Mapreduce, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Memcache, Redis, Column Store Databases, Rails, AngularJS, D3.js, AWS: DynamoDB, S3, SQS, EMR, ElasticCache and EC2.
* We are located in Downtown Crossing Boston.
We love candidates who:
* Prefer startup environments.
* Are passionate about technology.
* Enjoy influencing the direction of the product and technologies.
Successful candidates may help us with:
* Front end development - We have ambitious data visualization projects on our roadmap.
* Back end development - wrangling big data using Scala, AWS and several storage technologies.
* Mobile development on Android, iOS, HTML5 and Windows Phone
* Prototyping - We still do a significant amount of customer development and R&D.
Candidates of all experience levels encouraged to connect with us: jobs@localytics.com
^^^ Look at our About Us page to know what sort of a company are we ^^^
We make Visual Website Optimizer. VWO is an intuitive platform for websites to increase online sales and conversions by enabling marketers to constantly test and tweak the marketing funnel and run personalized one-to-one campaigns in minutes
We're hiring for following full time positions in Delhi:
- Software Engineer (mobile)
- Software Engineer (systems)
- Software Engineer (frontend)
- Software Engineer (backend)
- Product Managers
We're also looking to close senior executive level positions for engineering and product teams.
To apply, http://wingify.com/careers or send your CV to careers@wingify.com